The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.